Painting Kitchen Cabinets
Painting kitchen cabinets can be a very cost effective way to spruce up a kitchen. Do you have dingy, old looking cabinets? A nice, clean paint job can really make a kitchen feel brand new!
Are you planning on doing the work yourself or hiring a professional? Although it is not a lot of space, painting kitchen cabinets can be very time consuming and tricky.
Depending on what you are dealing with, you may want to consider a professional for this job. If not finished correctly, wood stains can show through the finish, and the cabinets can appear “cheap” with paint drips or an unsmooth texture.
Here are some questions to think about, which will affect how to paint them:
- What are the kitchen cabinets made of? Wood? Laminate? Other?
- Have the cabinets been painted before?
- If they’re wood, what kind of wood is it?
- How important is the finish to you?
- Do you want a very, very smooth – sprayed on finish?
- What’s your budget?
In any case, we recommend that you remove a door and finish the backside of the door in the system that you think will work the best first! (If you don’t like it, you can refinish, or strip it and it won’t face out anyway!) Think through the possible different primers and paint finishes, and ways to apply the paint – pick the one you like and try it out first on the backside of the door.
If you don’t like the finish – no foul!
For many, the best process to paint kitchen cabinets would probably be:
- Remove all doors and drawers and remove all hardware.
- Putty and repair cabinets as needed and thoroughly clean the cabinets with TSP to remove any grease.
- Take the doors and drawers to a shop and spray them with multiple coats of a lacquer based system.
- Plastic off the cabinet frames in the kitchen and spray with multiple coats of a lacquer based system using an HVLP (high volume, low pressure) sprayer (the same kind of sprayer used to paint cars with)
This way, you can get your cabinets to look as nice as a car paint job…
If you are not planning on spending this much time or expense painting cabinets, you can still make yours look great!
Painting Kitchen Cabinet Tips
- You may want to try a shellac or oil based primer. Â Use a foam cigar type roller and backbrushing the final coats.
- Ask your paint store rep for the products that “lay down” the best – these paints are designed to “level” as much as possible to give you a smooth finish without having to spray.
- Be sure to not “overwork” the paint. For example, you may use a roller designed to leave a smooth finish, and immediately use a very high quality brush for the type of paint you are using with gentle brush strokes all in the same direction – do not continue to brush over and over as this can make the paint less uniform and clean.
- Lightly sand, with a very high grit sandpaper(220 grit) in between coats and use a tack-clock to remove dust and debris. This will help to keep the finish smooth and each layer of finish coat will “build” on top of the previous one to get a good finish.
- We recommend using something like a sawhorse to keep the doors flat but elevated – this allows gravity to help you get a nice uniform finish.
- If you just put the doors on newspaper on the ground, you will run a higher risk of dust getting on them as well as the paper sticking to the side by accident while the paint is drying.
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